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Information Society and the Workplace Jeff Hearn (Swedish School of Economics and Business Administation, Helsinki. Finland)

Information Society and the Workplace By Jeff Hearn (Swedish School of Economics and Business Administation, Helsinki. Finland)

Information Society and the Workplace by Jeff Hearn (Swedish School of Economics and Business Administation, Helsinki. Finland)

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Bringing together studies of everyday local practices in workplaces within an information society, this book has a special focus on social space and the agency of actors. It includes both theoretical reviews and qualitative research.

Information Society and the Workplace Summary

Information Society and the Workplace: Spaces, Boundaries and Agency by Jeff Hearn (Swedish School of Economics and Business Administation, Helsinki. Finland)

This book looks at the impact of globalisation and technology on the workplace and how individuals and firms respond to it - a subject which is becoming of increasing international concern

It includes both theoretical reviews and detailed qualitative research

The book uses case studies from Finland, which is at the forefront of changes in the information society and technology

About Jeff Hearn (Swedish School of Economics and Business Administation, Helsinki. Finland)

Tuula Heiskanen is Research Director of the Work Research Centre, a unit of multidisciplinary working life studies in the Research Institute of Social Sciences, University of Tampere, Finland. She has studied professional and industrial work, work organizations in both public and private sectors, and both male- and female-dominated organizations. She is co-editor of Gendered Practices in Working life (1997).
Jeff Hearn is Research Professor in Sociology at the University of Huddersfield, UK, and Academy Fellow and Professor at the Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration, Helsinki, Finland. His interest in information society comes particularly from research on gender, sexuality, violence and ICTs. He is co-author of Gender, Sexuality and Violence in Organizations (2001).

Table of Contents

Part 1: Introduction 1. Spaces, Places and Communities of Practice Part 2: The Creation of Spaces 2. Bounded or Empowered by Technology?: Information System Specialists' Views on People's Freedom within Technology 3. Gendered Local Agency: The Development of Regional Information Society 4. Empty Spaces without Knowledge and Management Part 3: Working and Living in Spaces 5. The Dynamics of Control and Commitment in High-Tech IT Firms 6. Virtualizing the Office: Micro-Level Impacts and Driving Forces of Increased ICT Use 7. Women and Technological Pleasure at Work? 8. Fulfillment or Slavery?: The Changing Sense of Self at Work 9. In Search of Boundaries: Changing Boundaries in and through Teleworking Part 4: Concluding Discussion 10. Information Society, Agency and Identity Positions

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NLS9780415439862
9780415439862
0415439868
Information Society and the Workplace: Spaces, Boundaries and Agency by Jeff Hearn (Swedish School of Economics and Business Administation, Helsinki. Finland)
Jeff Hearn (Swedish School of Economics and Business Administation, Helsinki. Finland)
Routledge Studies in Technology, Work and Organizations
New
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2007-02-28
248
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